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Dr. Dr. h.c. Joachim VON BRAUN Director, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn; Chairman, German Bioeconomy Council, Berlin

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1975 Dipl. Ing. Agriculture, University of Bonn
1975-1980 Research Associate, Faculty of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen
1978 Doctoral Degree, Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen
1979-1980 Visiting Fellow, Institute of National Planning, Cairo
1981-1982 Research Fellow, IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC
1982-1983 Assistant Professor, Institute of Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany
1984-1990 Research Fellow, IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC
1990-1993 Director, Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC
1993-1997 Professor, Food Economics, Food Policy, and World Food Issues; and Director, Institute for Food Economics and Consumer Analyses, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kiel
1997-2002 Director; Chair of Department and Professor, Economics and Technical Change, ZEF - Center for Development Research, University of Bonn
2002-2009 Director General, IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC
since 2009 Director; Chair of Department and Professor, Economics and Technical Change, ZEF - Center for Development Research, University of Bonn

Mitgliedschaften

German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, 2017
American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), 2005
Associate Fellow, African Academy of Sciences, 2014
International Advisory Council on Bioeconomy, Leadership Team, 2019

Publikationen

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Partha Dasgupta, Joachim von Braun, and David G. Victor. "Climate Extremes and Global Health.", Foreign Affairs., 2018
Battro, A.M., Léna, P., Sorondo, M.S., and von Braun, J. (eds.): "Children and Sustainable Development - Ecological Education in a Globalized World." Cham: Springer International, 2017
J. Wesseler and J. von Braun.: "Measuring the Bioeconomy: Economics and Policies. Annual Review of Resource Economics.", 2017
Nkonya, E., A. Mirzabaev, J. von Braun (ed.): "Economics of land degradation and sustainable land management." Springer, 2016

Auszeichnungen

President, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican, since 2017
Marsilius Medal from University of Heidelberg, Germany, for interdisciplinary research, 2016
Lifetime Fellow, IAAE - International Association of Agricultural Economists, 2009 (President 2000-2003, Vice-President for Program 1994-1997, Executive Committee Member of IAAE 1994-2006)
Lifetime Fellow, African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2010